According to Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) will seek the Union Cabinet’s approval for the ambitious India artificial intelligence (AI) programme, which includes setting up of graphics processing unit (GPU)-based servers in public private partnership (PPP) mode with an outlay of over Rs 100 billion.
He added that the India AI programme will be in PPP mode under which computer infrastructure capacity will be built both in private data centres as well as in data centres run by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC).
He further added that existing supercomputers such as PARAM will also be included in this plan to create and augment the AI computing capacity in the country.
